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Over the past few weeks, I ditched my Spectrum cable home internet and television services and embraced the future: 5G.

Google said this week it is expanding the types of data people can ask to have removed from search results, to include personal contact information like your phone number, email address or physical address.

The ad identifier - aka “IDFA” on iOS, or “AAID” on Android - is the key that enables most third-party tracking on mobile devices.

Traditional computer programming has a steep learning curve that requires learning a programming language, for example C/C++, Java or Python, just to build a simple application such as a calculator or Tic-tac-toe game.

When your old tech gets too old for its primary use, you’ve still got options: phones can become security cameras, tablets can become e-readers, and laptops can be adapted to act as dedicated media servers. This type of hardware recycling can apply to USB drives too.

Google published a blog post on Wednesday announcing that it's now allowing people to request the removal of their phone numbers, email addresses and physical addresses from search results.

Whether you're running a Samsung Galaxy S22, Z Fold 3, or one of the other best Samsung phones, Galaxy smartphones contain a whole host of tucked-away features that you may not have been aware of.

At Google I/O, ‘ambient computing’ is on everyone’s lips…but it was never meant to be another world of screens as Google is presenting. 9 minute ReadIt was the third time that I heard the words “ambient computing” that got my attention.

Google is finally making it easier for you to make sure your personal information doesn't show up in online search results – and all it took was hundreds of thousands of requests over nearly a decade.

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How do you sign into services? Because a newly disclosed Facebook exploit might change how you go about it in future...

The mobile phone landscape looks drastically different today than it did three decades ago. In 1993, Motorola accounted for more than half of the mobile phone market. But by 2021, its market share had shrunk to just 2.2%.

Earlier this month, DeepMind presented a new “generalist” AI model called Gato. The model can play the video game Atari, caption images, chat, and stack blocks with a real robot arm, the Alphabet-owned AI lab announced. All in all, Gato can do 604 different tasks. 

For the last five years, driverless car companies have been testing their vehicles on public roads.

You might not know it from all the panic-inducing headlines out there, but Android is actually packed with practical and powerful security options.